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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon has himself crowned king of Italy in the cathedral in Milan | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Horatio Nelson dies on the deck of the Victory after winning the battle of Trafalgar | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and then defeats an Austrian and Russian army at Austerlitz | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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| 1807 |
| | | To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Napoleon launches an invasion of Portugal, increasing the likelihood of a Peninsular War | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1808 |
| | | A French army under Joachim Murat advances on Madrid, causing the Spanish royal family to flee | |
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